Amos 5
1 Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
Israeli, imva mawu awa, nyimbo ya maliro imene ndikuyimba za iweyo:
2 “Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”
“Namwali Israeli wagwa, moti sadzadzukanso, wasiyidwa mʼdziko lake lomwe, popanda woti ndi kumudzutsa.”
3 This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”
Ambuye Yehova akuti, “Mzinda umene udzapite ku nkhondo ndi anthu 1,000 amphamvu udzatsala ndi anthu 100 okha; mzinda umene udzapite ku nkhondo ndi anthu 100 amphamvu udzatsala ndi anthu khumi okha basi.”
4 For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: “Seek Me and live!
Zimene Yehova akunena kwa nyumba ya Israeli ndi izi: “Mundifunefune kuti mukhale ndi moyo;
5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.
musafunefune Beteli, musapite ku Giligala, musapite ku Beeriseba. Pakuti Giligala adzatengedwa ndithu kupita ku ukapolo, ndipo Beteli adzawonongekeratu.”
6 Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
Funani Yehova kuti mukhale ndi moyo, mukapanda kutero Iye adzatentha nyumba ya Yosefe ngati moto; motowo udzawononga, ndipo sipadzakhala wina wozimitsa motowo ku Beteli.
7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
Inu amene mumasandutsa chiweruzo cholungama kukhala chowawa ndi kunyoza chilungamo.
8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—
(Iye amene analenga nyenyezi za Nsangwe ndi Akamwiniatsatana, amene amasandutsa mdima kuti ukhale mmawa ndi kudetsa usana kuti ukhale usiku, amene amayitana madzi a mʼnyanja ndi kuwathira pa dziko lapansi, Yehova ndiye dzina lake.
9 He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.
Iyeyo amabweretsa chiwonongeko modzidzimutsa pa anthu amphamvu ndi kuwononga mizinda yotetezedwa),
10 There are those who hate the one who reproves in the gate and despise him who speaks with integrity.
inu mumadana ndi amene amadzudzula mʼbwalo la milandu ndi kunyoza amene amanena zoona.
11 Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
Mumapondereza munthu wosauka ndi kumukakamiza kuti akupatseni tirigu. Nʼchifukwa chake, ngakhale mwamanga nyumba zamiyala yosema, inuyo simudzakhalamo. Ngakhale mwalima minda yabwino ya mphesa, inu simudzamwa vinyo wake.
12 For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.
Pakuti Ine ndikudziwa kuchuluka kwa zolakwa zanu ndi kukula kwa machimo anu. Inu mumapondereza anthu olungama ndi kulandira ziphuphu ndipo anthu osauka simuwaweruza mwachilungamo mʼmabwalo anu amilandu.
13 Therefore, the prudent keep silent in such times, for the days are evil.
Nʼchifukwa chake pa nthawi yotere munthu wanzeru sayankhulapo kanthu, popeza ndi nthawi yoyipa.
14 Seek good, not evil, so that you may live. And the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be with you, as you have claimed.
Muyike mtima wanu pa zabwino osati pa zoyipa, kuti mukhale ndi moyo. Mukatero Yehova Mulungu Wamphamvuzonse adzakhala nanu, monga mmene mumanenera kuti ali nanu.
15 Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Mudane ndi zoyipa, mukonde zabwino; mukhazikitse chiweruzo cholungama mʼmabwalo anu amilandu. Mwina mwake Yehova Mulungu Wamphamvuzonse adzachitira chifundo anthu otsala a mʼbanja la Yosefe.
16 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.
Choncho izi ndi zimene Ambuye, Yehova Mulungu Wamphamvuzonse, akunena: “Mʼmisewu monse mudzakhala kulira mofuwula, ndi kulira chifukwa cha kuwawa kwa masautso kudzakhala paliponse. Adzayitana alimi kuti adzalire, ndipo anthu odziwa maliridwe anthetemya adzalira mofuwula.
17 There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,”
Mʼminda yonse ya mpesa mudzakhala kulira kokhakokha, pakuti Ine ndidzadutsa pakati panu,” akutero Yehova.
18 Woe to you who long for the Day of the LORD! What will the Day of the LORD be for you? It will be darkness and not light.
Tsoka kwa inu amene mumalakalaka tsiku la Yehova! Chifukwa chiyani mumalakalaka tsiku la Yehova? Tsikulo kudzakhala mdima osati kuwala.
19 It will be like a man who flees from a lion, only to encounter a bear, or who enters his house and rests his hand against the wall, only to be bitten by a snake.
Lidzakhala ngati tsiku limene munthu pothawa mkango amakumana ndi chimbalangondo, ngati pamene munthu walowa mʼnyumba, natsamira dzanja lake pa khoma ndipo njoka nʼkuluma.
20 Will not the Day of the LORD be darkness and not light, even gloom with no brightness in it?
Kodi tsiku la Yehova silidzakhala mdima osati kuwala, mdima wandiweyani, popanda powala pena paliponse?
21 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
“Ndimadana nawo masiku anu achikondwerero ndipo ndimawanyoza; sindikondwera nayo misonkhano yanu.
22 Even though you offer Me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; for your peace offerings of fattened cattle I will have no regard.
Ngakhale mupereke nsembe zopsereza ndi nsembe zachakudya, Ine sindidzazilandira. Ngakhale mupereke nsembe zabwino zachiyanjano, Ine sindidzaziyangʼana nʼkomwe.
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
Musandisokose nazo nyimbo zanu! Sindidzamvetsera kulira kwa azeze anu.
24 But let justice roll on like a river, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.
Koma chiweruzo cholungama chiyende ngati madzi, chilungamo ngati mtsinje wosaphwa!
25 Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?
“Kodi pa zaka makumi anayi zimene munakhala mʼchipululu muja munkandibweretsera nsembe ndi zopereka, inu nyumba ya Israeli?
26 You have taken along Sakkuth your king and Kaiwan your star god, the idols you made for yourselves.
Inu mwanyamula kachisi wa mfumu yanu, ndi nyenyezi ija Kaiwani, mulungu wanu, mafano amene munadzipangira.
27 Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.
Nʼchifukwa chake Ine ndidzakupititsani ku ukapolo, kutali kupitirira ku Damasiko,” akutero Yehova, amene dzina lake ndi Mulungu Wamphamvuzonse.
